Shocking-machine.



H. G. LANCASHIRE. SHOCKING MACHINE.

- APPLICATION FILED 8EPT. 27 1916- 1,%6,951 Patented Nov. 20, 1917.,

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SHOCKING MACHINE. APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 22, I916.

1,246,951, Patented Nov. 20', 1917.

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H. G. LANC'ASHIRE.

SHOCKING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 21. 1916.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 20, 1917.

Application filed September 27, 1916. Serial No. 122,535.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, HARRY GEORGE LAN- CASHIRE, of the city of \Vinnipeg, in the Province of Manitoba, Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shocking-Machines, of which the following is the specification.

The invention relates to improvements in shocking machine, and the principal object of the invention is to provide a machine which can be readily attached to the side of a binder and which when attached will receive the sheaves delivered from the deck, elevate them and discharge them into a receiving basket wherein they are formed into a shock and after being compressed to spread the base of the shock are dumped on the ground butts down by the turning of the basket, which is directly controlled from the binder. A further object of the invention is to provide in a machine of this class an elevator provided with specially constructed fingers which will catch and carry the sheaves without jarring them unduly and further, an elevator controlled to accommodate the oncoming sheaves from the deck when the basket is dumped. A still further object of the invention is to provide a basket having compression arms adjustable in respect to the basket and arranged in the open position to act as guides for the sheaves passed into the basket and further, to provide piercing prongs in the bottom of the basket which co-act with the compre sion arms to retain the shock in the basket when the same is being turned A still further object of the invention is to provide in a machine of this type a means for cushioning or taking the jar olf the basket when the same returns to the original position after having been dumped.

Vith the above objects in view the invention consists essentially in the arrangement and construction of parts hereinafter more particularly described and later pointed outin the appended claims, reference being had to the accompanying drawings in which:

Figure 1 represents a plan View of my shocking machine attached to a binding machine with the deck extension removed.

Fig. 2 represents a rear end View of the parts appearing in Fig. 1. I I

' Fig. 3 is a side view of the shocking machine from the outer side.

Fig. 4. is an enlarged detailedside View of one of the basket clutches and adjacent parts.

Fig. 5 is a face view of the ing in Fig. 4.

Fig. 6 is a side view of a portion of the basket showing one of the compression arms and adjacent parts.

Fig. 7 is an enlarged detailedvertical sectlonal View through the spring box secured to the basket and contained parts, together with the associated bracket carried by the shocker frame.

Fig. 8 is an enlarged detailed plan view of one of the fingers and cross slats supporting the same.

Fig. 9 is a side view ofthe parts appearing in Fig. 8.

Fig. 10 represents a side view of the controlling rod and parts controlled thereby.

Fig. 11 is an enlarged detailed vertical sectional View through the elevator controlling clutch.

In the drawings like characters'of reference indicate corresponding parts in each figure,

1 represents the main frame of a binding machine and 2 the deck thereof over which the sheaves bound by the binder are customarily delivered.

3 represents the pitman shaft of the binder which is'located in the usual position and is driven by the binder driving chain 4.

I have not considered it necessary to en large further upon the construction or a r-'- parts appear- I rangement of these parts nor to disclose The outer ends of the side bars are secured permanently at 11- to the shocking machine frame 12, which frame is in reality a substantially open ended rectangular one formed from upper and lower parts presenting upper side members 13 and 13', lower 7 side members 1% and lflconnecting upper and lower front cross members 15 and 15" and connecting end portions 16 and 16'.

17 and 18 are oppositely disposed more or less U-shaped wheel supports having their inner. sides permanently secured respectively to the members 13 and 14 and 13 and 14 of the frame and carrying short axles l9 and 20 on which are mounted carriage wheels 21 and 22 tted with chain wheels 23 and These wheels support the rear part of the machine while the front part thereof is carried by a caster wheel 25 located at the lower end of a forked shank 26 swivelly secured in carrying brackets 27 permanently secured centrally to the cross members 15 and 15 of the shocker frame.

The upper members 13 and 13 of the shocker frame are supplied with a pair of opposing bearings 28 and 29 which actually carry the sheaf receiving and shock forming basket now described.

The basket 30 is an open topped one and. is formed from sheet metal s iaped to present acontracted rear end and an enlarged front end, this flaring construction initially effooting the shaping of the shock. lteinforo ing side bars 31 and 32 are secured to the upper edges of the basket and it is braced further by an applied reinforcing band passing around it on the underside.

34; and 85 are alined basket supporting shafts having their inner ends permanently secured by castings 36 to the opposite sides of the basket.

The extending ends of the basket shafts protrude through the bearings 28 and 29 and they are received within sleeves 37 rotatably mounted on the shafts and in the bearings and provided at their outer ends with chain wheelsBS and 39 and at their inner ends with male clutch members 40. The male clutch members are associated with female clutch members 41 feathered on the respective basket shafts as indicated at as, and these female clutch members are controlled from the binder in a manner later disclosed. F or the sake of brevity I will hereinafter refer to these clutch members as A and B.

The'chain Wheels .38 andSEl are connected with the driving chain wheels 28 and :24 by chains 43 and 4%.

From the above construction it will we obvious that if the clutch members A and ii should be disengaged the carriage wheels 21 and 22 will continuously operate the sleeves and will produce no movement in the basket, this not taking place until the clutch members are engaged.

45 and i6 are a pair of compression arms having their lower ends protruding through slots 47 provided in the sides of the basket and pivotally secured by a bolt 48 to lugs 49 located on the outer sides of the basket. It will be 'herenoticed that there are arnumberof lugs which allow one to adjust the compression arms by removing the bolts and reinserting them in a different pair of lugs. The upperend of the compression arms are bent outwardly in a more or less semicircular manner as best shown in Fig. 2,

t eses-i and by being so bent they provide guides for the sheaves thrown to the basket. Each compression arm is controlled by a some what Sshapcd operating bar 50 which has the upper end thereof fastened to the compression arm by a pin 51 entering a slot 52 in the arm, the body portion thereof pass ing to the outside of the basket and the lower end thereof adjustably fastened as by a set screw 50 to a short, normally horizontally disposed spindle 53 having the ends thereof carried in bearing brackets 5e and 55 secured to basket. provided so that upon the spindles being turned the upper e ds of the bars can swing in over the top of the basket and throw down the compressor arms. Each of the spindles is controlled in its movement by an outstanding lever 56 fitted with a roller 57 which operates on a cam track 58 suitably suspended by brace bars 55) and 60 from the shocker frame and wheel supports. The two cam tracks (one at each side of the basket) are similar in construction and are bent into the shape best shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings, where one of them appears in side view. Here it will be observed that normally the roller is pocketed in the lower portion of the track and that the track extends upwardly for a short distance at only a slight angle to the vertical as indicated at 58, then is bent concentric to the basket shaft as indicated at 58 and finally passes away gradually as indicated at 58* from the has ct shaft and terminates in a stop 58. This peculiar arrangement of the cam tracks is such t it when the shaft is swung; in the turning the be set in the direction indicated by the arrow, Fig. 3, the rollers will operate to swing tie compression arms quickly down, this occurring during the interval that the rollers passing over the parts 58 of the tracks, will then retain for a short A eriod the compression arms in the swung down position this occurring during the interval that the rollers perating on the concentric parts 58 and will then swing; away from the basket shafts while operating on the parts 58* of the tracks and by so doing will release the compression arms. Obviously, by so controlling the compression arms the head of the shock will be initially compressed in the basket to spread the butt. The shock will be held in the basket during the unending thereof and will be free to drop at a proper instant to clear from the basket. 'llhe final dumped posit on of the basket is limited by the rollers striking the .stopsf58 addition to the compressionearms for holding the shock in the basket, l have pro vided piercing prongs t l and which protrude through the underside the basket and are carried by rocker bars 68 the opposite sides the I The peculiar bend in the bars 1s and 67.

and 64 pivotally attached at 65 to the basket and having their upper ends'olfset outwardly at 68' and 6t and directly under the control of inserted spiral springs 66 As will be observed, the prongs are held projecting into the basket by the action of the springs, with the result that the shock is restrained from sliding in the basket by the prongs until such time that the prongs are withdrawn and this is accomplished by providing striking plates 68 and 69 secured to the cam tracks which are designed, when thebasket dumps, to hit and press in the ends 63 and 64 of the rocker bars.

The front end of the basket carries at the opposite sides a permanently mounted spring box 70 in which is mounted slidably a normally vertically disposed striker rod TI fitted with a collar 72 and directly under the control of a compression spring 73 inserted between the collar and the base of the box. The ends of the rods project be yond the box and the upper ends thereof are designed in the normal or sheaf receiving position of the basket to ride against the undersides of brackets 74L permanently secured to the shocker frame. This latter arrangement is such that when the basket is returned to the original position after dumping it is cushioned by the upper ends of the rods striking the undersides of the brackets.

Between the basket and the deck I have located an elevator 75 which is driven from the binder and is arranged to receive sheaves delivered from the deck, elevate them and deposit them in the basket. This elevator is now described in detail.

76 is a lower conveyer cross shaft rotatably mounted in the side bars 8 and 9 and 77 and 78 represent the side frames of the elevator which have their lower ends mounted on the shaft 76 and their upper ends carried by side braces 79 and 79' extending from the bars 8 and 9. The upper ends of the elevator frames carry a top cross shaft 80 which is adjustably mounted in any suitable manner in the side frames. The cross shafts 76 and 80 are fitted with pairs of chain wheels 81 connected by driving chains and they are supplied further, between the said frames, with rollers 83 on which I have mounted endless bands or straps 8-1.

85 and 85 are pairs of cross slats fastened to the straps and also to the chains and disposed a suitable distance apart. Each pair of slats carries a set of extending fingers 86 which fingers are of the special construction now described.

Each finger comprises a main rod 87 having one end slightly booked as shown at 87 and the other end formed into a more or less rectangular loop 87 which is pivotally mounted in. a bearing strap 88 secured to one of the slats, the looped endof the rod being bent backwardly at an angle to the i body thereof.

87* is a second rod bent into a loop more or less in the nature of an, open ended link and having the ends thereof pivotally secured by means of, a pin 89-to the rod 87 and the body portion thereof fastened pivotally to the other of the slats by a bearing strap 89. By so constructing the fingers and connecting them to the slats, it will be seen that I form a specially good carrier for the sheaves deposited from the deck and also provide a simple arrangement which allows the fingers to travel readily around the rollers.

Between the lower end of the deck and the lower end of the conveyer I locate a deck extension board 90 which is permanently secured to the underside of the deck and is adapted to direct the sheaves delivered from the deck onto the lower end of the elevator. As it is necessary in the operation of this machine that the elevator stoo operating during the interval that the basket is dumping and then commence to operate when the basket is returned to the original position, I have provided a means for simultaneously controlling both the elevator and the basket,v

said means being operated from the binder. On the shaft 76 I mount a free clutch member 91 and an opposing clutch member 92 which is feathered on the shaft and controlled by a lever 93 pivotally attached to the side bar 8.

A chain wheel 91 is formed integral with the clutch member 91 and is connected by means of a chain 91 with a chain wheel 9% located on the rear end of the pitman shaft 3. The details of the latter clutch members are best shown in Fig. 11 .of the drawings, where it will be seen that the clutch member 91 is rotatably mounted on a more'or less spool-shaped sleeve 91 permanently secured tothe shaft, the flanges of which prevent the said clutch members from moving endwise on the shaft.

95 is a main controlling rod passing to any suitable location on the binder and within convenient range of the attendant thereon. This rod is connected to one end of a bell crank 95 pivotally secured to the front bar 9 and one end of the bell crank is connected by means of an operating link 96 with the rear end of the lever 93. The other end of the bell crank is connected to controlling rod 97 which passes across the front of the shocking machine and has the outer end thereof formed into an eye 97 which receives the downturned end 98 latter rod is supplied with a spanner 98;-

which spans and controls the member ll of the outer basket clutch.

99 is a further rearwardly directed rod corresponding to'that 98, which rod has the forward end thereof upturned as at 99 and entering an eye 97 in the rod 97 and the rear end thereof mounted in a suitable hearing 99 presented by the bearing 28. [his rod is provided with an upwardly clirected spanner 99 which spans the inner clutch member at the inner side of the basket.

From the above arrangement it will be obvious that upon the rod 95 being shifted to the left (see Fig. 1) the bell crank will effect, through the rod 96, the disengaging of the clutch members 91 and 92 and through the rod 97 and the rods 98 and 99 the engaging of the clutch members A and B of the shocking machine. Accordingly, the elevator will go out of commission at the instant the basket clutches go into commission to turn the basket and vice versa.

a is a vertically disposed butting plate located at the large end of the basket and pivotally mounted in hangers b disposed on the front end of the shocker frame.

a is a coiled spring connecting the upper part of the butting plate to the front cross member 15 of the frame and d is a chain connecting the lower part of the butting plate with the latter cross member and limiting the inward turning of the lower side of the butting plate.

l/Vhat I claim as my invention is 1. In a shocking machine the combination with a shocker frame, an open topped, normally horizontal disposed sheaf receiving and shock forming basket pivotally carried by the frame and means for turning the basket to dump, of a pair of normally upstanding and opposing compression arms pivotally secured. to the opposite sides of the basket, horizontally disposed rotatably mounted spindles carried by the sides of the basket, operating bars secured to the spindles and slidably connected with the upstanding ends of the compression arms, cam tracks suspended from the shocker frame at the outer sides of the basket and levers permanently secured to the spindles and having their outer ends provided with rollers operating on the tracks.

2. In a shocking machine the combination with a shocker frame, an open topped, normally horizontally disposed sheaf receiving and shock forming basket pivotally carried by the frame and means for turning the basket to dump, of a pair of normally upstanding and opposingcompression arms pivotally and 'adju'stably secured to the oppositeside's 'of the basket, horizontally disposed rotatably mounted spindles carriedby the sides of the basket, operating bars adju'stably secured to thespin'dles and slidably connected'with the'upstandingends of the compression arms, cam tracks suspended from the shocker frame at the outer sides of the basket and levers permanently secured to the spindles and having their outer ends provided with rollers operating on the tracks. 7

3. In a shocking machine the combination with a shocker frame, an open topped, normally horizontally disposed sheaf receiving and'shock forming basket 'pivotally carried by the frame and means for turning the basket to dump, of a pair of normally upstanding and opposing compression arms pivotally and adjustably secured to the opposite sides of the basket and having their upper ends bent outwardly in a more or less semi-circular manner, horizontally disposed, rotatably mounted spindles carried by the sides of the basket, operating bars adjustably secured to the spindles and slidably connected with the upstanding ends of the compression arms and with the body portions thereof'bent in a more or less S-shaped manner, cam tracks suspended from the shocker frame at the outer sides of'the basket and levers permanently secured to the spindles and having their outer ends provided with rollers operating on the tracks.

4:. In ashocking machine the combination with a shocker frame, an open topped,-'normally horizontally disposed sheaf receiving and shock forming basket pivotally carried by the frame and means for turning the basket to dump, of a pair of normally upstanding and opposing compression arms pivotally and adjustably secured to the opposite sides of the basket and having their upper ends bent outwardly in a more or less semi-circular manner, horizontally disposed, rotatably mounted spindles carried by the sides of the basket, operating bars adjustablyse'cured to the spindles and slid ably connected with the upstanding ends of the compression "arms and with the body portions thereof bent in a more or less 8- shaped manner, cam tracks suspended from the shocker frame at the outer-sides of the basket and levers permanently secured to the spindles and having their outer ends provided with rollers operating on the tracks, s id cam tracks being constructed to simultaneously and similarly operate the compression arms in the turning of the basket and effect the initial quick inturning of the compression arms, the retaining of the comp'ression'arms in their inner position for a-short-inter-val and the final "release of the compression arms.

5. In a shocking machine the combination with a-shocker frame, an open toppeda'ormally horizontally "disposed sheaf receiving and shock forming basket pivotally carried ing normally through the bottom of the basket and means for withdrawing the prongs in the dumping of the basket.

6. In a shocking machine the combination With a shocker frame, an open topped, normally horizontally disposed sheaf receiving and shock forming basket pivotally carried by the frame and means for turning the basket to dump, of a pair of rocker bars pivotally secured to the underside of the basket, prongs projecting from the bars and protruding through and into the basket, springs normally projecting the prongs into the basket and means engageable With the rocker bars in the turning of the basket to rock them and Withdraw the prongs.

7. In a shocking machine the combination with a shocker frame, an open topped, normally horizontally disposed sheaf receiving and shock forming basket pivotally carried by the frame and means for turning the basket to dump, of a pair of rocker bars pivotally secured to the underside of the basket and having their lower ends fitted with prongs which project through and into the basket, springs interposed between the upper ends of the rocker bars and the body of the basket and normally retaining the prongs projected into the basket and striking plates carried by the shocker frame and designed to hit the upper ends of the bars as the basket approaches dumping position and efiect the Withdrawal of the prongs.

8. In a shocking machine the combination With a shocker frame, a. sheaf receiving and shock forming basket pivotally mounted in the frame and means for turning the basket to dump, of cushioning means normally interposed between the basket and the frame and comprising spring cushioned striker rods secured to the front end of the basket at opposite sides and engaging brackets secured to the frame.

9. In a shocking machine the combination with a shocker frame, a sheaf receiving and shock forming basket pivotally mounted in the frame and means for turning the basket to dump, of cushioning means normally interposed between the basket and the frame and comprising spring boxes secured permanently to the outer sides of the basket, rods slidably mounted in the boxes and with the ends thereof extending, collars mounted on the rods and Within the boxes, springs interposed between the collars and the bases of the boxes and brackets permanently se- Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of latents,

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